"God's Control in Our Chaos" | Glorious Ruin, Part 03 | Tullian Tchividjian

As difficult and tormenting as suffering, pain, failure, and loss are, they are the very things God uses to produce the most good in us and the most good for us. Qualities like empathy, humility, wisdom, depth of feeling, and insight cannot be developed apart from agony and affliction. It was Fyodor Dostoevsky, in fact, who said, “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

I don’t know what you’re going through—what your current crucible of ache is—but I think this message from Job 1:20-21 will be a great encouragement to you.